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    The Tao of Wu

    By The RZA

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    From the founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, an inspirational book for the hip-hop fan.

    The RZA, founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, imparts the lessons he’s learned on his journey from the Staten Island projects to international superstardom. A devout student of knowledge in every form in which he’s found it, he distills here the wisdom he’s acquired into seven “pillars,” each based on a formative event in his life—from the moment he first heard the call of hip-hop to the death of his cousin and Clan-mate, Russell Jones, aka ODB.

    Delivered in RZA’s unmistakable style, at once surprising, profound, and provocative, The Tao of Wu is a spiritual memoir the world has never seen before, and will never see again. A nonfiction Siddhartha for the hip-hop generation from the author of The Wu-Tang Manual, it will enlighten, entertain, and inspire.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Group
    Release dateOct 15, 2009
    ISBN9781101150955
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    The Tao of Wu
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    The RZA

    The RZA is most famous as the founder and leader of the Wu-Tang Clan, the platinum-selling hip-hop group that is widely considered one of the most important of all time, and has also spanned multiplatinum solo careers for many of its members, including RZA. Originally from Staten Island, he is currently based in Los Angeles, where he has continued his music career while successfully branching out into lecturing, television, and film.

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      RZA is an eclectic. He certainly writes from the heart, and what is found there is a swirling eddy of pop-culture, kung-fu movies, Confucianism, Christian rhetoric, 5%er dogmatics, experimental drugs, martial arts and hip-hop hubris. His religion can be boiled down to: "everyone is on the same path", which is to say, there is no path. If everything is true, well then, everything is meaningless. I suppose there is some sort of Westernized Zen in there somewhere, but getting a grip on the edge of his intellectual garment is like nailing jello to a wall. But, that is all part of the mystique, no? RZA and his friends went East to find their identity, an identity based in shared experience - not in religious conviction. That came after. But the identity is mythological, a dreamy China, based more on the Stone than actual history. They see themselves as the antithesis of the Manchurians. RZA is on to something on the level of art. I take it that the aspects of our experience exist in relative antithesis to one another. They give way to a practical dialectic and creative synthesis; this is the basis for creative discovery and new learning. Unlike absolute antitheses which do not yield to any kind of synthesis — such as the distinction between the Creator and His creation — relative antitheses take into account distinct meanings, but allow for interactivity that yields new insights. RZA does this with his music, with the joining of aesthetics that are based on fundamental notions of beauty and structure. In so doing he has created some incredibly meaningful art. But religiously, he tries to join things that are at root antithetical. This is where, in my opinion, things get muddy. Being lead by what are essentially aesthetic values to the ground of "truth" is a difficult if not impossible task. RZA has, perhaps inadvertently, adopted the notions of the English Romantics of the 19th century, a very Western confluence of notions about the East. The book is part biographical, part philosophical manual.